“Either you are in the game or you are not in the game…. I would say that the era of great caution and a very much greater dependence on multilateralism, that era is to a certain extent behind us. We have to step out more, we have to be more confident, we have to articulate our interests better, we need to take risks because without taking risks like in business or in banking, you cannot get ahead. Those are the choices we have to make and I think there is no getting away from it.”
India’s External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar, in an interaction
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